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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-110/
- Published: 2022-10-24T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-24T18:45:02.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Education, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

Thousands of New Zealand students are not enrolled in school and close to a thousand have been absent from school for more than a year.

> Youth worker Brendon Crompton said the number [didn’t line up with the reality](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/129642747/no-quick-fixes-in-battle-against-poor-school-attendance?ref=goodoil.news) of what he was seeing.  
>  
> “Around 1000 children is too low. We have had more than 4000 referrals \[of chronically absent students\] since the start of the year,” he said.  
>  
> A total of 8403 students were not enrolled in schools as of July. Of those, 912 of those had been unenrolled for more than a year, according to [government data](http://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/written-questions/document/WQ%5F35037%5F2022/35037-2022-erica-stanford-to-the-associate-minister?ref=goodoil.news).

[Read more here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300714967/grave-concerns-as-nearly-1000-students-absent-from-school-for-more-than-a-year?ref=goodoil.news) Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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